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by pbowyer 3y ago
How would you recommend doing that in a transparent way on MacOS/Windows/Linux?
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Capacitor framework has an awfully outdated and unmaintained camera library (I was the maintainer for a short while). It's fine if you want to trigger the native camera to open and then get the picture, but embedding the camera in your
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by pbowyer 3y ago
> One of the big "aha" moments I had was a couple years ago when I was trying out Stripe's Identity product, which lets you take a selfie and a picture of your ID for identity verification purposes. It's pretty amazin
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by pbowyer 3y ago
I find the Sonoff drops off the network more than the others, the humidity sensor is well outside accuracy and drifts over time, and is the first to have run out of battery. It's the humidity sensor that makes it a "No buy" f
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by pbowyer 3y ago
HomeAssistant works, but I'm always surprised when it is praised on Hacker News given the preponderance here for rewriting every program in Rust. Home Assistant is an unwieldy monolith where spitting out the components would give you s
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by pbowyer 3y ago
My Zigbee battery temperature and humidity sensors struggle to do 10m with 1 concrete wall between the receiver and sensor. Tried Aqara, Tuya and Sonoff (avoid the Sonoff one).
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by pbowyer 3y ago
I use OpenCV for blur detection and camera shake detection on mobile devices, to qualify the image before handing it along to an AI model to extract data. I can't think that 2 extra neural networks would be faster at this task than Ope
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by pbowyer 3y ago
It is, but in many parts of the UK BT's equipment is knackered. So you rely on support to poke BT with a big stick to get things fixed quickly.
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Thank you! That looks so much better withh these changes. I couldn't work out how to do this one though: > - edit the ebook reader css to add some padding / line-spacing to fit your taste and use a font like Libre Baskerville W
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by pbowyer 3y ago
> Whenever we hit a tiny corner case These are the nightmare of WordPress sites. Someone builds a house of cards out of a pile of plugins, and then I'm asked "Why might it cost $$$ to upgrade my WordPress plugins?!?". Well
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by pbowyer 3y ago
This is a really nice technique, thanks for sharing. Question: why would you prefer the latter technique on public sites, vs what's in your user stylesheet?
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by pbowyer 3y ago
I'm approaching 40 and Discord makes me feel old. Like I have no clue how to use it. I've joined multiple programming Discords. When I post, where am I notified of the new replies to me? Or new threads in reply to my messages? I&#
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Be great to have an example for Symfony (PHP) and Doctrine ORM too.
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by pbowyer 3y ago
> They seem to use paid writing suites quite a lot. MadCap Flare is a name you hear often. TW teams writing in B2C contexts often use these suites too. I didn't know these suites existed. What other ones are popular, and what's
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Similar, but I use Whimsical instead of Miro for diagrams.
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Probably because your brain works in the same way as the mods think, and so you ask questions that fit the expected format. Or your questions are focused with one right answer, because IME SO hates any question which assumes - unintentional
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by pbowyer 3y ago
In our case we switched to holding that data in Elasticsearch. Now we have 2 problems: running Elasticsearch and keeping the data in Elasticsearch in sync with MySQL. We took an application-level approach to triggering record sync to ES but
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by pbowyer 3y ago
This is a really nice post and series. I'm curious how you're doing the profiling and then generating the flame graphs e.g. in https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem/ . Is this Chrome&#
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by pbowyer 3y ago
I'm using it for site-search analytics. Originally I was using MariaDB but because we do search-as-you-type there's a complex aggregation query to identify the "real" searches, and with 1000 entries that was taking 10s o
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by pbowyer 3y ago
That's a great - and funny - video. Nicely done!
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by pbowyer 3y ago
What these articles always miss is what are the real-world scenarios that use Kafka or RabbitMQ? I've never used one professionally and beyond the async processing cases I come across in web dev (mostly sending emails asynchronously),
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by pbowyer 3y ago
You see similar performance improvements in bencharmarks of Litespeed & PHP LSAPI [1]. Unfortunately said benchmarks are usually done by the software company making said webserver, so have to be taken with a pinch of salt. 1. https:&#x
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Same. A shell without fzf now feels weird.
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Lovely, thank you!
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Where can you see how much of your Aurora spend is on I/O? There must be a Cloudwatch metric somewhere
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Not being familiar with Java apps, can any reader tell me the best way to run this on macOS? From the CLI?
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Tourist boards are a great source of this. Here's one from 2019 for Northern Ireland that I particularly like: https://fonts.tourismni.com/ Their website is a nightmare to find content on, so here's the design gui
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by pbowyer 3y ago
Thanks for the info, most examples I'd seen of Stimulus.js used it for making server requests which seemed to double up with LiveView. Am I right that its main distinguisher over other JS frameworks is using controllers, and loading an
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by pbowyer 3y ago
> My dream stack that I am using for my business is Phoenix, Live View and Stimulus.js with Tailwind. I am curious, why both LiveView and Stimulus.js? Why and how are you combining the two together?
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by pbowyer 3y ago
> I think Elixir/Phoenix could use a little bit of Javascript (and modern PHP) enthusiasm to help with adoption Definitely, although as someone who finds that level of "enthusiasm" or fanboism a turn off, I like that it&#x

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